This Season’s Designers
This year’s edition of the Berliner Salon brings together 36 designers presenting their work across fashion and accessories.
Scroll down to meet the designers and explore their work.
AfroBodega
AfroBodega is a sustainable BIPOC art collective based in Berlin since 2023. By only working with donated/self-produced fabrics every piece has its own storytelling and an elevated value from the black hands sewing each thread.
The collective uses fashion to center pride, identity, and resistance, while building space for collaboration and storytelling focused on black cultural narratives.
Aleksander Kudrischow
Aleksander Kudrischow is a brand with a focus on craftsmanship.Especially at a time when modern technologies are replacing a lot of human interaction, I find it particularly important to keep the generational conversation alive. By using tailoring techniques from bespoke suit-making while still having fun with garments, shapes, and designs, I aim to combine tradition with acontemporary and playful approach to clothing.
@alexanderkrudischow
Amélie V
Amelie V stands for timeless textile design that translates emotion into tangible experiences through material, texture, and color. Inspired by the rhythms of nature, I create high-quality knitwear pieces using natural and recycled fibers. My work bridges innovative craftsmanship with visual storytelling, fostering a deeper connection to our surroundings and invitng people to pause, reflect, and dream.
@amelie.vpl
Anastasia Bull
ANASTASIA BULL is a Basel-based fashion designer whose eponymous label explores voluminous shapes, vivid fabrics, and experimental pleating to create ethereal, powerful garments. Her intuitive, sculptural approach draws inspiration from feminist science fiction, celebrating fluidity, self-love, and intersectional feminism. A 2022 MA graduate of the Basel Academy of Art and Design and recipient of the Swiss Design Award 2023, her work has gained international recognition and has been worn by artists including Björk, Kehlani, and Bella Poarch.
www.anastasiabull.com
@anastasia.bull
Angelique Dins
Angelique Dins embraces individuality and celebrates diversity. The brand creates sustainable designs for every body, empowering self-expression with confidence and ease. At its core is the mission to blend timeless elegance with playful freedom, shaping a more inclusive future in fashion.
Boonrocked
Boonrocked exists at the intersection of high fashion and functional streetwear. Inspired by diverse cultures and perspectives, the brand creates distinctive designs that embrace contemporary influences while maintaining a timeless character.
Christiane Schwambach
In the project Rare Flowers, Christiane Schwambach translates the raw emotionality of contemporary art into circular, wearable accessories and objects. Inspired by the expressive, naïve paintings of artist Daniel Thurau, the series Only the Good Die Young captures the fleeting beauty and radiant transience of life. Thurau’s fluorescent palette is reflected in deconstructed vintage glass beads and contrasting fragments. The result is a collection of opulent is yet fragile textile blooms – circular one-of-a-kind pieces that celebrate both the beauty and the delicacy of the present moment.
Clara Rathke
Clara Rathke is a fashion designer whose work explores transformation through sculptural silhouettes and refined craftsmanship. Balancing strength and softness, structure and fluidity, she creates garments that evoke both confidence and vulnerability. Her distinctive design language merges contemporary femininity with architectural forms, resulting in pieces that feel simultaneously powerful, sensual, and deeply personal.
ELVA BLAU
Rooted in anthropology, ELVA BLAU explores the meaning we attach to the things we carry. She understands her objects as contemporary artefacts that serve as extensions of identity. With an experimental approach and a focus on reclaimed materials, she creates singular objects whose forms emerge from intuitive making.
Gautamma
Gautamma is rooted in a deep exploration of transformation - of matter, meaning, and perception. Operating at the intersection of art, philosophy, and textile experimentation, fashion is treated not as adornment but as a sculptural and emotional language. Through immersive garments and material innovation, the work investigates the tension between illusion and embodiment, the real and the surreal, questioning the boundaries between inner and outer, body and space, fragility and force.
InJewels
InJewels is a contemporary fine jewelry brand founded by German-Ghanaian goldsmith Stella Owusu. Handcrafted in Berlin, the collections combine sculptural design, exceptional craftsmanship, and cultural influences from West Africa and Europe. Through responsible materials and meaningful design, InJewels creates jewelry that carries both beauty and personal significance.
IRMGARD
GRANDMA KNOWS BEST.
Rooted in restraint and precision, IRMGARD balances quiet elegance with a tactile sense of permanence.
J.A.I.W
J.A.I.W is a sustainable fashion label at the intersection of textile art and wearability. Inspired by the slug as a symbol of vulnerability, softness, and transformation. Through slow, tactile processes and sustainable materials, the brand creates emotionally resonant garments that invite reflection on our relationship with nature, change and the body.
jb archive
Jb archive is an avant-garde fashion brand from Berlin focused on experimental materials, bold silhouettes, and uncompromising craftsmanship. The brand explores the tension between utility and expression, creating pieces that feel both raw and refined.
joaH kRaus
Founded in 2001, I design a wardrobe based on menswear. Contemporary pattern making and shaping of silhouettes are the defining characteristics; the fabrics used are pure and substantial, with a focus on wearability and ease of care. All produced models eventually become part of an archive, from which the respective Spring/Summer and Autumn/Winter editions are created.
www.joahkraus.de
@joahkrausworkshop
KEN HAGEN
KEN HAGEN is a fashion brand by designer Tim Borkenhagen. Exploring the relationship between garment, image and material. Influenced by illustration, graphic languages and urban environments, the work focuses on developed textiles, distinctive textures, subtle colour palettes and timeless silhouettes. The collections emerge through experimentation, process and continuous refinement.
Lena Voutta
LENA VOUTTA is a Berlin-based fashion designer and textile artist whose work combines contemporary design with traditional craftsmanship. Her fashion and knitwear label focuses on handcrafted, one-of-a-kind statement pieces, including hand-knotted vests and coats with long, colorful fringes. These signature designs offer vegan, sculptural alternatives to fur.
www.lenavoutta.com
@lenavoutta
Lene Böhles
Lene Böhles, a Berlin-based designer, develops concept-driven collections that challenge and reinterpret narratives of femininity and resilience. Shaped by surrealist influences, her work transforms complex notions into distinctive visual and material expressions.
Leo Moritz
I am searching for a new way of minimalism, not by the absence of color, patterns or ornaments, but rather by a graphical approach to working with them. My work is characterized by the rejection of high gloss image making, focusing on designing Clothing which supports a narrative that feels raw and intimate.
Levent Altin
A long-term passion for vintage and antique fabrics - such as tablecloths and bed linens - brought this project to life. A deep sentimentality for their unique techniques and beauty sparked the desire to preserve and transform them into something new. One-of-a-kind garments composed entirely of vintage textiles interpreted in basic and timeless pieces.
Maira Gath
Maira Gath creates handwoven wearable art rooted in traditional craftsmanship through a sensual dialogue between body, texture, and form. Drawing inspiration from the colours of nature, the linen, wool and cotton are individually transformed into unique pieces that exist somewhere between fashion, art and intimacy.
Maria Melzer
My work extends beyond the design of garments, considering their staging an integral element of the creative process. I am interested in creating experiences in which clothing, body, space and atmosphere interact to shape engaging narratives.
Melanie Limberg
My work is defined by a conscious approach to materials and a balance between contrasting aesthetics. Through the use of color, pattern, and thoughtful material choices, I aim to create contemporary designs that feel both personal and responsible.
Nicole Kiesel
Nicole Kiesel utilizes tedious repetitive processes of traditional handcraft techniques to shape the surfaces of the garments, reflecting on the history of unseen female labour and acts of care. The choice of technique is based on the materials unique behaviour, resulting in pieces inviting to be touched.
PARK217 berlin
PARK217 berlin is Mar Suárez and Michael Gentz. Originally from Barcelona and based in Berlin, they create jewelry and accessories in porcelain, glass, tin, sterling silver, and lace. Their pieces take shape as intuitive, soft, unfolding compositions.
Each piece is still designed and crafted in-house.
Paulina Bongartz
Drawing inspiration from depth psychology and scientific thought, Paulina Bongartz explores the tension between inner transformation and cosmic vastness. Guided by Japanese philosophies such as wabi-sabi, her designs reflect a fascination with imperfection and reconstruction, where beauty emerges through traces of repair and transience. Through her use of layered silhouettes, deconstructed forms, symbolic details, and a strong narrative approach to storytelling, she creates garments that unfold like visual narratives, inviting quiet contemplation of the ever-changing self and its endless connection to the universe.
@paulina.bgtz
POOR[arzhan]GY
POOR[arzhan]GY moves between blue-collar reality and white-collar symbolism — where uniforms speak and work becomes identity. We turn rawness, function, and the quiet dignity of labor into womenswear that challenges class boundaries. Our pieces transform effort into concept and routine into design, finding beauty in honesty, structure, and the stories carried by those who build the world.
Rosalba Faroghi
Rosalba Faroqhi creates concept-driven fashion that draws from art, material research, and personal observation. Her work explores the tension between familiarity and ambiguity, using clothing as a tool to question established conventions and ways of seeing.
@rosalbafaroqhi
SEGUN
“Fervent Charity”, my final year graduation project, was inspired by my experiences as a child and teenager. It represents the act of showing kindness and compassion towards others, even when those feelings are not reciprocated. Bold colours play a significant role in the project, aswell as the distinctive cuts and designs which were inspired by my cultural background. Each look carries its own meaning and can be connected to the concept of agape selfless, unconditional love.
@sheegzs
SPSR.Studio
SPSR.Studio is a contemporary menswear concept from Germany, blending tailored craftsmanship with street culture. A bit like Antonio Vivaldi feat. Kendrick Lamar. Through a co-creation approach, the brand develops menswear essentials that are designed around the individual and produced responsibly in Europe. SPSR.Studio believes that modern tailoring should be personal, cultural, and built to last.
www.spsr.studio
@spsr.studio
stöhr
We create fashion through a material driven approach, exploring unconventional resources and traditional craft techniques. Inspired by nature and shaped by experimentation, our work challenges conventional perceptions of materials and their possibilities. Each piece reflects a dialogue between craftsmanship, innovation and material awareness.
@stoehr__
Tarık Coşar
Tarık Coşar utilises fashion as a narrative and political medium, where form becomes an intentional tool reflecting on control, resistance, and transformation. Through an interplay of structure and fluidity, his practice conveys these tensions, allowing deliberate imperfection to challenge flawless uniformity and emphasise human individuality. Defined by silhouette, tailoring, and craftsmanship, Tarık Coşar envisions speculative futures that reshape our human legacy and political memory.
Tata Christiane
Founded in 2007, Tata Christiane is a Marseille born, Berlin based label creating emotional clothing from upcycled materials and deadstock fabrics. Blending deconstructed couture with contemporary street costume, the brand explores individuality, emotion and transformation through a poetic approach to slow fashion.
www.tatachristiane.com
@tatachristiane
TUBULAR
TUBULAR is a series of leather bags that adopts significant characteristics of iconic tubular steel furniture, including Viennese cane weaving, chrome-plated steel, and leather. Through refined craftsmanship and innovative construction techniques, these signature elements are reinterpreted into handbags distinguished by a subtle aesthetic and an intuitive closure system. The chrome-plated tubular components are engineered as bespoke hardware, seamlessly merging functional performance with architectural precision.
@tabular_offiziell
ULTRAVANTGARDE
Born in Berlin, ULTRAVANTGARDE is an ultra-slow fashion label that redefines style by weaving together past and future. Each piece is a bold reimagining of fashion’s rich history—where sportswear gracefully interlaces with evening wear, Victorian grace intertwines with contemporary casual attire, and antique robes are reborn in the vibrant world of the ‘80s fashion, creating a visual symphony of contrasts and harmonies. Crafted from vintage, deadstock, and leftover fabrics and materials, every garment breathes new life into forgotten materials, embracing sustainability without compromising on avant-garde artistry.
www.ultravantgarde.com
@ultravantgarde
Zan Zalif
Zan Zalif is a contemporary fashion label shaped by a romantic avant-garde vision. Through fluid, sculptural silhouettes and a strong sense of narrative, the brand crafts pieces that feel both expressive and deeply personal. Drawing from the designer’s South Asian heritage while engaging with the language of contemporary Western fashion, Zan Zalif creates clothing that moves beyond trends—blurring the line between garment, artwork, and storytelling.